A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plan to send hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children in the U.S. to Guatemala after lawyers for the children made a pre-dawn emergency appeal for 10 of the minors, who were already boarded on airplanes.

Shortly after 1 a.m. ET on Sunday, the advocacy group National Immigration Law Center filed a class action lawsuit along with its emergency appeal to halt the deportation of the children already on planes, writing in its complaint that it had “learned that flights are reportedly scheduled to depart the United States within the next 2 to 4 hours” and that the administration was “illegally transferring them to Immigration Customs Enforcenent (ICE) custody to put them on flights to Guatemala.”

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